yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running – or had not run – in vain.

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.